Orson Scott Card Quotes
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I think for some reason we're conditioned in movies that the protagonist must be heroic or redeemable in some way, whereas in theater, that's not a necessary.
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I love pretending to be other people. The more unlike me they are the better - I find other people endlessly fascinating and myself incredibly boring.
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I take my Bible with me, sometimes two of them, when I travel.
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'Prison Notebooks' gives me a basic understanding of how power can influence people through cultural products and intellectual groups, so they will voluntarily support the hegemony.
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I know I've got to just keep throwing the ball. That's what I do best.
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I believe the House of Representatives is exactly the place where immigration reform should take place. Our entire House is elected every two years. We're the people closest to the people.
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I exercise about 40 minutes a day, and I'll run one day and do circuit training the next day. I live in an area where there are brilliant hills and mountains, so I get a good hill run with my dog. At home, I'll do the circuit training with old weights, along with pull-ups in the trees and that sort of stuff.
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Fast bowling is an art, like spin bowling.
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A champion owes everybody something. He can never pay back for all the help he got, for making him an idol.
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Before the reward there must be labor. You plant before you harvest. You sow in tears before you reap joy.
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Living with a stammer is difficult. It's a daily uphill struggle with emotional baggage weighing you down. You can't be the person you want to be.
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Anyone who hates children and animals can't be all bad.
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It must be done like lightning.
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I still care about people but it would be so much easier not to care. I don't want to get to close: I don't like to touch things, that's why my work is so distant from myself Nicolas Love, April 1987
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My youngest uncle Randy and I were the first members of our entire family to ever go to college.
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There are beautiful words in the Bible and in our pledges and the Declaration of Independence.
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I've got a lot of little quirks and moments that - my wife, she knows exactly what to say and how to handle me, 'cause I can be hard to handle.
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I can't add above 10, I can't draw a stick figure, and I'm tone deaf. So I had to be able to do something. I found that something was picking successful models.
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The world I want to live in is a world where everybody is a bit more uncertain about their arguments and is a bit more open to other people's arguments. I think that we can engage ideas without ad hominem attacks.
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Change the changeable, accept the unchangeable, and remove yourself from the unacceptable.
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My mom says that my dad coerced me into choosing the cello. He says that's not entirely true. I don't remember; I was three.
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It's always been my dream to just continually do really cool indie movies - character-driven stuff.
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My hands are clean, but not because I wasn't prepared to bloody them.
